Alena Dillon to Be Interviewed on A Mighty Blaze
- Woodhall Press
- Oct 13, 2021
- 1 min read
Alena Dillon, author of My Body is a Big Fat Temple, will be interviewed on A Mighty Blaze on October 14 at 4pm ET. You can watch the event on Facebook or Youtube.
My Body Is A Big Fat Temple, a memoir of pregnancy and early motherhood, follows a writer as she debates having children, miscarries, faces morning sickness, uncertainty, physical impairments, labor, breastfeeding, the “baby blues,” the heartache of not loving her son as she thinks she should, parenting through a plague, until finally (basically, mostly) blossoming into her new identity.
Creating life is a primal phenomenon. It requires grit, resilience, and a lot of bathroom breaks. There are dry heaves and darkened nipples, crotch lightning and brain fuzz, milk stains, sleep regressions, and equal amounts of despair and joy. It's a complicated magic. The undertaking is airbrushed to preserve the ideal of motherhood, and exacerbated by a culture that dictates what women can do and how they should feel. We don’t get the full story, so mothers with unromantic experiences feel like aberrations, and worse, alone. This is why the voices of women matter. The voices of mothers matter. Here’s one to keep you company, and to remind you to do your Kegels. (They’re really important.)
This sounds incredibly honest and refreshing. I really appreciate how it doesn’t sugarcoat motherhood and instead talks about the messy, confusing, and very real parts that so many people feel but rarely say out loud. It’s the kind of story that makes you feel less alone—almost like taking a break from the endless pressure to be “perfect,” the same way playing something familiar like Subway Surfers can give your brain a moment to breathe